BOLD JEWEL THEFT IN WEST END
NINE VALUABLE RINGS STOLEN (Received December 21, 11.35 p.m.) LONDON, December 21. After booking a room in a West End hotel, three fashionably dressed and well-spoken men telephoned to a Bond street firm of jewellers and asked it to send a representative with a selection of diamond .and platinum rings. The men gave the name of a well-known Continental buyer. The representative arrived with 10 rings and was displaying them when suddenly he was attacked and .beaten unconscious, upon which the men pocketing nine of the rings, valued at £16,000, and strolled quietly out of the hotel into a waiting car. The representative was discovered an hour later with serious head injuries, but he had managed to retain one of the rings. _ , A reward of £l5OO has been offered for information leading to the apprehension of the thieves.
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Southland Times, Issue 23389, 22 December 1937, Page 5
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